Improvement in buckles



S. PORTER.

BUCKLE.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.;

STEPHEN PORTER, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT INy BUCKLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 170,109, .datedNovember 16, 1875; application filed May 7, 1875.

To all whom it may concern: A

Be it known that I, STEPHEN PORTER, of Boston, in the county of SuffolkVand State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and usefnlImprovementin ShoeFastenings, of which thefollowing is a specication:

This invention relates tofastenings forshoes; and consists in combiningwith a buckle a strap, provided with. a hook or hooks, or an eye oreyes, by which to catch it in the shoe, so that it may be readilyremoved and attached at pleasure, or that it may be removed entirely,it' desired, and the ordinary lacing used instead, this strap being theconnection then on the shoe, which is buckled to the ankle for fasteningthe shoe on the foot.

In the accompanying plate of drawings, Figure l is a face view of abuckle applied,

according to this invention, to one part of a fastening-strap of a shoe,and buckled to the other strap, making the other part of saidfastening-strap. Fig. 2 is a section along line w, Fig. `l. Fig. 3 is aface view of the under side of the buckle.

In lthe drawings, A represents a buckle,

which may be of any of the ordinary kinds, in this instance being shownas made of a buckleframe, a, carrying on its center cross-piece b atongue, ,0, by which to buckle a strap on the buckle; d d, two hooksswung on the crosspiece b of buckle-frame a, and by these hooks d d thebuckle is caught in the eyes f f of a part of the shoe or other article011 which it is to be used, and thus secured in place. The eyesff may bein the buckle-frame, instead of in the shoe, and the hooks on the shoe;but I prefer the arrangement described. B, a strap, buckling into thebuckle A. This strap is provided with hooks h h, by which to hook it tothe shoe, and these h ooks are, by their headed parts l Z, attached tothe strap, allowing them to be detached and attached readily. A buckleadapted, as has been aboge described, for attachment to thearticle onwhich it is to be used can obviously be removed at pleasure, and thusmade susceptible of use again when the article is Worn out; and,besides, there are other obvious advantage Having now described 'm yinvention., what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1st Incombination with the buckle A, constructed as described, and the' strapB, the hooks h lz, for attaching the buckle to the shoe, substantiallyas described.

The above specification of my invention signed by lne this 29th day ofApril, A. D.

STEPHEN PORTER. Witnesses:

EDWIN W. BROWN, GEO. H. EARL.

